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- Mary I of Scotland (27810 bytes)
7: ...Queen of Scots,''' was the ruler of [[Scotland]] from [[December 14]], [[1542]] – [[July 24]], [...
9: ...y I of England]] ("Bloody Mary"), who lived at approximately the same time ([[1516]] – [[1558]])...
14: ...that parliamentary act, because the legitimacy of Robert's children of first marriage were questionabl...
15: ...ed the throne because all other male lines of the royal house had gone extinct before the death of Mar...
17: ... of the Stewarts' reign over Scotland. Instead, through Mary's son, it was the beginning of their reig... - Elizabeth I of England (34338 bytes)
7: ...gland]] and [[King of Ireland|Queen of Ireland]] from [[17 November]] [[1558]] until her death. Someti...
9: ... VIII]], she was a writer and poet. She granted [[Royal Charter]]s to several famous organizations, in...
11: ...he number of [[Privy Council|Privy Counsellors]] from thirty-nine to nineteen, and later to fourteen.
16: ...s addressed as Lady Elizabeth and lived in exile from her father as he married his succession of wives...
18: Elizabeth's first governess was Lady Bryan, a baroness whom Elizabeth called "Muggie". At the age of... - Portugal (61755 bytes)
1: ..., and is the westernmost country in continental Europe. Portugal is bordered by [[Spain]] to the north...
5: ...ural power. The [[Portuguese Empire]] stretched across the world. After the rise of other colonial pow...
7: ...]. Portugal made significant social and economic progress in the subsequent decades, with a clear slow...
13: ...'''[[Lusitanian|Pre-Roman]]''' and '''[[Lusitania|Roman Lusitania]]'''''
15: - List of painters (54090 bytes)
10: *[[Michelangelo Buonarroti]], ([[1475]]-[[1564]]), Italian [[sculptor]] an...
44: *[[Alessandro Algardi]] ([[1595]]-[[1654]])
46: *[[Alessandro Allori]] ([[1577]]-[[1621]])
52: *[[Altichiero]] ([[1320]]-[[1395]])
54: *[[Rodolfo Amoedo]] ([[1857]]-[[1941]]) - List of popes (77758 bytes)
2: This is a '''list of Popes of the Roman Catholic Church'''.
4: ...tself has been used officially by the head of the Roman Catholic Church since the tenure of [[Pope Sir...
6: ...[metropolitan bishop|Metropolitan]] of the Roman Province'' and ''[[Servus Servorum Dei|Servant of the...
21: | rowspan="2" | '''[[Pope Peter]]'''<br><small>Saint P...
23: | rowspan="2" | <small>Simon Peter</small><br>'''—... - Tycho Brahe (17516 bytes)
3: ...[nobleman]], well known as an [[astronomer]]/[[astrologer]] (the two were not yet distinct) and [[alch...
8: ...er, also came from an important family which had produced leading churchmen and politicians.
10: ...e [[Tostrup Castle]] until he was six years old. Around 1552 his uncle was given the command of Vordin...
12: ...purchased an [[ephemeris]] and books such as [[Sacrobosco]]'s Tractatus de Sphaera, [[Apianus]]' Cosmo...
14: ...over a period of several years.'' -Tycho Brahe, [[1563]] (age 17). - Pieter Brueghel the Elder (6133 bytes)
3: ...in Latin, is meant. From 1559 he dropped the 'h' from his name and started signing his paintings as ''...
7: ...their father died; neither received any training from him.
9: ... nicknamed 'Peasant Brueghel' to distinguish him from other members of the [[Brueghel|Brueghel dynasty...
11: ...[allegory]]. His winter landscapes of 1565 are corroborative evidence of the severity of winters durin...
14: ...9]], with peasant scenes illustrating over 100 [[proverb]]s]] - Michel de Montaigne (5245 bytes)
6: ... a Spanish Jewish family, but was herself raised Protestant. Montaigne was sent to a small cottage wi...
8: ...acute;tienne de la Boétie]] whose death in 1563 deeply influenced Montaigne.
16: ...c [[Henry III of France|King Henry III]] and the Protestant [[Henry of Navarre]].
18: ...ntaigne suffered from painful [[kidney stone]]s. From 1580 to 1581, Montaigne travelled in France, Ger...
20: ...etween Catholics and Protestants. The [[plague]] broke out in Bordeaux toward the end of his term. - Francis Drake (14963 bytes)
2: ...o [[circumnavigation|circumnavigate]] the globe, from [[1577]] to [[1580]] and was knighted on his ret...
7: ...as early as [[1535]]. The [[1540]] date is taken from a portrait painted quite late in his life. Franc...
9: During the [[Catholicism|Roman Catholic]] uprising of [[1549]], the family wa...
12: ... few days before, nearly costing Drake his life. From then on, he devoted the rest of his life to work...
13: ...ad escaped the Spanish), Drake raided the waters around [[Dari鮬 Panama|Darien]] (in modern [[Panama]... - Sikhism (31029 bytes)
2: ... Granth Sahib]], the Sikh holy book. It departs from some of the social traditions and structure of [...
4: ...ain ritualistic practices that distracted people from focusing on [[God]]. He wanted to go beyond what...
6: ...s successor and to lead the Sikh community. This procedure was continued, and the tenth and last Guru,...
10: ...rance that it is a blend of insights originating from two very different faiths. Sikhism's coherence i...
12: ...es (consumerism). This materialism prevents them from seeing the ultimate reality, as God created matt... - Sebastiano Serlio (4494 bytes)
1: ...ential treatise, ''Tutte l'opere d'archittura et prospetiva''.
3: ...ruzzi, he began as a painter. He lived in Venice from 1527 to 1540 but left little mark on the city.
6: ...made more classical, of the innovative method of providing a facade to a church with a high vaulted na...
10: ... in the libraries of Sir [[Christopher Wren]] and Robert Woods, the entrepreneur who laid out [[Bath]]...
12: ...tory of classical images that it was reprinted in 1563 and in 1572.
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